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MARBLEPSIS; LAELIA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
affinis. M. affinis sj). n. (22 h). Similar to paradoxa, but larger, costal margin of forewing broadly black, 
black powdering on 1 b of the hindwing, in the hindwing the blackened marginal portions more extensive, 
also its fringe black. type in the Berlin Museum from Opobe, South Nigeria. 
60. Genus: Marblepsis gen.nov. 
Like Marblci, but 6 + 7 in the hindwing forked, palpi somewhat shorter. Tibial blade of front tibiae 
longer than tibia. 
pirgula. M. pirgula sp. n. (22 h) is very similar to the Pterothysanid genus Pirgula. Uni-coloured white, 
antennal pinnae brownish, wings hyaline, forewing with 2 black dots before the apex and one above the tornus 
on 1 c. Two $3 from Kwai, West Africa, in the Berlin Museum. 
dolosa. M. dolosa sp. n. (21 d). Body pale ochreous-yellow, abdomen white, antennae brown. Wings trans¬ 
parent dull whitish-grey, forewing in the apical third blackish, at the rise of veins 3 to 5 with a black spot, q 
type from Cameroon in the Berlin Museum. 
niveola. M. niveola sp. n. (21 d). Uni-coloured white, hyaline; antennal pinnae blackish-brown. <f$ type from 
Bibundi, Cameroon, in the Berlin Museum. 
61. Genus: Laclhi Steph. 
Hind tibiae with 2 pair of spurs, legs without projecting scale-tufts on the anterior tarsi and middle 
tibiae. Forewing with an accessory cell, vein 11 separate, vein 10 from the accessory cell, vein 7 forked with 
8 + 9 or from the same place. Vein 6 distinctly separated from the accessory cell. In the hindwing 6 and 7 
are forked, 4 nearer to 3 than to 5. 
cxirema. L. extrema sp. n. Quite similar to subrosea, but beside the submarginal row of dots with a discal 
one extending almost parallel to the former, and besides with dots on the cross-vein. 1 $ from Shangiro, German 
East Africa in the Berlin Museum. Expanse: 30 mm. 
subrosea. L. subrosea Wkr. ( = subrufa Snell., rosea Schs.) (23 b). Body reddish-white, palpi three times as 
long as the head, towards the apex yellowish. Forewing reddish-white, hyaline, with fine,- scattered, black 
scales along the posterior edge of the discal cell, a black longitudinal streak of 1 mm width from the base 
to the rise of vein 4, sometimes also yet extending beyond the beginning of 2 and 3. This streak is posteriorly 
indistinctly defined, but in front distinctly marked; it is, however, often quite absent. Before the margin a 
very much bent row of 6 small black spots. Hindwing above and beneath white. Forewing beneath pale reddish- 
white, the markings of the upper surface showing through. Expanse: 28 mm. From Sierra Leone to Natal. 
xyleutes. L. xyleutes Hmps. Quite similar to subrosea (23 b). Forewing not pinkish-white, but brownish-pink. 
$ ochreous yellowish-white, costal margin ochreous-yellow. Togo, South and East Africa. 
bifascia. L. bifascia Hmps. (21 f). Body pale reddish-brown, abdomen ochreous-yellowish, beneath reddish. 
Forewing pale reddish-brown, powdered with blackish; a black longitudinal streak on the posterior edge of 
the cell, another streak shortened in front and behind, on lb. A subterminal series of dark streaks on the 
veins, being sometimes obsolete. Hindwing ochreous yellowish-white. $ mostly more reddish, streaks of forewing 
narrower and often shorter. Expanse: 32 to 38 mm. South and East Africa. 
figlina. L. figlina Dist. resembles bifascia, but is more reddish in the forewing, the longitudinal streak on 1 b 
is absent. Expanse: 33 mm. South Africa. 
perbrunnea. L. perbrutinea Hmps. Body red-brown. Forewing dark red-brown, somewhat powdered with blackish, 
with a black streak on the cross-vein. Hindwing pale reddish-brown, powdered with a somewhat darker colour. 
Expanse: 34 to 40 mm. British East Africa. 
margine- L. marginepunctafa B.-Bak. (27 h). Body ochreous-yellow. Forewing pale ochreous-yellow with 
punctata, traces of a slanting grey antemedian and a darker similar post-median transverse band. A subterminal row 
of black spots between the veins. Hindwing dull ochreous-yellow, towards the margin lighter. Expanse: 36 mm. 
North-Eastern Rhodesia. 
fuscinotata. L. fuscinotata Hmps. Body reddish-brown, mixed with blackish. Abdomen pale ochreous-yellow. 
Forewing pale reddish-brown, thickly powdered with black. Below the cell two mostly united black dots, a- 
similar one right below the cross-vein, one below vein 3 below the cell-end. Above and below vein 7 one black 
subterminal dot each, indistinct similar ones above and below vein 4. Hindwing whitish, powdered 
with ochreous-brown, traces of blackish subterminal spots at the distal margin. $ darker, forewing and hindwing 
without dots. Uganda. 
